The Women of Troy (Signed 1st Edition)

Pat Barker

ISBN 10: 0241427231 / ISBN 13: 9780241427231

Published by Hamish Hamilton, 2021

About this Item

Maroon boards with silver titles to the spine. Clean pages and firm binding. Dust Jacket is not price clipped. Signed by the author to an 'exclusive signed edition' page. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging and dust jackets are placed in removable protective covers.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Women of Troy (Signed 1st Edition)
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241427231
• ISBN 13: 9780241427231
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed By Author

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Synopsis

Following her bestselling, critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths.

Troy has fallen. The Greeks have won their bitter war. They can return home victors, loaded with their spoils: their stolen gold, stolen weapons, stolen women. All they need is a good wind to lift their sails.

But the wind does not come. The gods have been offended - the body of Priam lies desecrated, unburied - and so the victors remain in limbo, camped in the shadow of the city they destroyed, pacing at the edge of an unobliging sea. And, in these empty, restless days, the hierarchies that held them together begin to fray, old feuds resurface and new suspicions fester.

Largely unnoticed by her squabbling captors, Briseis remains in the Greek encampment. She forges alliances where she can - with young, dangerously naïve Amina, with defiant, aged Hecuba, with Calchus, the disgraced priest - and begins to see the path to a kind of revenge. Briseis has survived the Trojan War, but peacetime may turn out to be even more dangerous...